novelraw Chapter 105
Chapter 105
Chapter 105: Eating the Dragon!
“Finally here.”
“Why didn’t you guys go in first?”
“This buffet has a one-hour time limit. If we go in, we go in together.”
The neon lights of the street illuminated the faces of the F3 brothers. Some were standing, some squatting, hands in their pockets, all looking at Xia Li who was riding over.
Xia Li got off the bike and picked up Lucia, who was wiggling her little butt on the back seat, and put her down.
Lucia’s feet touched the ground, but before she could stand firm, her head felt lighter. Xia Li had taken off her helmet and tossed it back into the bike basket.
This two-wheeled vehicle powered by electricity is really interesting…
And it doesn’t seem difficult to control.
Thinking this, Lucia stuck out her little butt, ready to sit back in the seat Xia Li had just been sitting in. But Xia Li grabbed her by the back of her collar.
“Get over here. With your sense of balance, you can’t handle this thing.” Xia Li said sternly.
Lucia pouted, thinking that she had just seen a human cub riding a two-wheeled vehicle, so she could definitely do it too.
“Bringing your wife to a place like this is definitely not cost-effective. We’ll have to eat more later to get our money’s worth.”
The five of them walked in through the main entrance, Fu Yuan walking in front and shouting.
Everyone who enters a buffet has this obsession, which is to get their money’s worth.
But in reality, unless you’re a big eater, it’s actually very difficult for a normal person to get their money’s worth from a buffet.
No matter what, the restaurant owner will always make a profit, and the better the business, the more profit they make.
“Not getting your money’s worth? Impossible.”
Chen Tao had seen Lucia’s appetite. He raised an eyebrow and smiled, saying nothing more.
At this time, the crayfish restaurant was packed with people. The group waited in line for a while, and only after the previous table finished eating and left were they able to take their seats.
F3 saved a row of sofa seats for Xia Li and his girlfriend. None of them wanted to be stuffed with dog food, so they pushed and shoved each other, and finally each took a chair, forming a semi-enclosed structure around Xia Li and his girlfriend.
The buffet was bustling with activity, steam rising everywhere. Lucia took off her blue bear coat and sat quietly in the corner by the window, wearing a sweet pink sweater.
Xia Li went to get her a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice first.
“What do you want to eat? I’ll go get it for you.”
“Lamb…”
Lucia’s small, delicate nose twitched; she smelled the unique scent of mutton.
“They actually have lamb chops. Wait here.”
Xia Li turned around and went to the buffet table to get a portion of lamb ribs, two steaks, and a large handful of meat skewers.
These were just appetizers for the evil dragon.
Lucia couldn’t help but swallow as she stared at the food.
But now she was outside, and she couldn’t be as casual as she was at home.
Lucia knew she had to restrain herself, so she leaned to the side and whispered in Xia Li’s ear, “Are these all mine?”
“They’re all yours. Eat as much as you want.”
After thinking for a moment, Xia Li felt it necessary to explain to the evil dragon what a “buffet” was.
“This restaurant doesn’t charge by the amount of food, but by the number of people. I’ve already paid for your headcount, so you can eat as much as you want.”
“Dragon head fee.” Lucia corrected seriously.
Xia Li laughed, “Okay, dragon head fee. Anyway, here you pay once and eat until you’re full, so you don’t have to hold back. The more you eat, the more cost-effective it is for us, understand?”
After saying that, Xia Li waited for a moment.
Lucia had very little memory in her little head; she needed time to think and understand this new term.
So that means…
She was now a hungry dragon released into the mountains, free to eat whatever she wanted in the mountains, no longer needing to follow the human world’s way of bartering one thing for another.
She was very good at this.
This was how Lucia lived when she had a mountain all to herself.
“Oh! Then I’ll go get some more!”
Understanding, Lucia was about to get out of the corner of the sofa.
Xia Li tucked in his legs to make way for her.
“…You can only take things from the buffet table, not from other people’s tables!” Xia Li reminded her.
The evil dragon had already walked away, and it was unclear if she had heard him.
Fu Yuan, who was sitting across from Xia Li’s table, couldn’t help but laugh and say, “Don’t worry, your wife definitely knows this much common sense.”
Fu Yuan only knew that Xia Li’s girlfriend was from a remote village, but he didn’t know how remote it was.
Xia Li had a hard time explaining.
Your wife’s common sense is not just at the level of a savage, but at the level of a wild dragon.
After a while, Hou Zijie and Chen Tao, who were in charge of getting the food, also came back. They were holding a large pile of plates in their arms, piled high with all kinds of food.
“Didn’t you go to get the drinks and crayfish…”
Fu Yuan remembered the theme of the night and felt like they were going off-topic.
“We ran into Little Lu,” Chen Tao said. “So we helped her out first.”
“I don’t think we need to get crayfish anymore…” Hou Zijie said with a resigned expression.
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No matter how much he could eat, the amount of food that filled the table was a bit exaggerated; it was probably enough for all five of them.
“I’ll go drag her back.”
Xia Li slapped his thigh and stood up.
He knew that leaving this evil dragon alone with food was dangerous.
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“Boss, is my steak ready?”
“Almost, almost. I’ll get you two servings in a moment.”
“Boss, I want three servings.”
“Okay, okay, I’ll give you three servings!”
Lucia was standing in line quietly with an empty plate in her arms in front of a teppanyaki grill.
The chef grilling the steak saw that the little girl was so cute, and even though each person was only supposed to get two servings of steak, he gave her three.
The freshly cooked black pepper steak was fragrant, and Lucia pursed her lips, happily heading to the next station.
“Stop right there.”
Xia Li grabbed her and took the food from the evil dragon’s hands.
Lucia stopped where she was and looked up in confusion, her plate gone.
“Can you even finish that?” Xia Li said sternly. “If you can’t finish it, you’ll have to stay and wash the dishes.”
Although Lucia had been in human form for a month, she obviously had no concept of the limits of the human stomach.
He didn’t want her to whine and say she couldn’t eat anymore, and then have Xia Li clean up after her.
“Go back and sit down. Get more after you finish eating.”
Xia Li led the evil dragon back to their seats, and the evil dragon didn’t say a word, having no objections.
As soon as she sat down, she lowered her head and silently started eating.
She ate plate after plate of meat, and when she got tired of eating, she took a sip of juice, paying no attention to what the human male beside her was talking about.
Xia Li had two drinks and casually discussed the two games they played in the afternoon with his buddies.
Chen Tao and Hou Zijie, the two blame-shifting kings, were at it again, arguing with each other, holding their glasses and bickering from beginning to end.
Xia Li laughed as he watched them make a scene. He clinked glasses with Fu Yuan, the bespectacled Watermelon Head, and asked him,
“How’s your civil servant exam going? It’s in early November, right?”
“I took it, sigh…” Fu Yuan shook his head, the bitter wine burning his throat, his heart feeling bitter as well.
“The results will be out in January, but I don’t think I have a chance. Everyone else is studying full-time at training institutions. I’m just a self-taught, scattered candidate who doesn’t even understand the basics.”
“It’s okay, you can take it again if you don’t pass,” Xia Li comforted him. “Why don’t you sign up for a training course, so you don’t waste time.”
“The registration fee is tens of thousands of yuan. It’s like being treated as a leek,” Fu Yuan sighed.
“Those training institutions say they’ll refund you if you don’t pass after five years. It seems like a good deal on the surface, but who can keep taking the exam for five years? And the time cost is also a cost.”
Xia Li thought about it and agreed, “Then you should watch more online courses. The valuable information they teach might not be any less than what the training institutions offer. If you really feel unsure and want to give it another shot, then find a reliable small class to try.”
“Just weigh your options. With your grades, it shouldn’t be difficult if you study seriously.”
After saying that, Xia Li clinked glasses with Fu Yuan, and Fu Yuan smiled and nodded, “Boss, you’re the best.”
Fu Yuan was the second best student in the gang from Building Number Three of the Shangdong Chaoyang Residential Complex, on the same level as Xia Li.
As for the best student, it was the female doctor who was currently on the high-speed train and would probably arrive soon.
“Sister-in-law, our boss is in your hands.”
Fu Yuan felt emotional. He didn’t expect that the first person in their group to find a girlfriend would be Xia Li, who was just as homebound as he was.
He raised his glass to toast Lucia.
Lucia was burying her face in her food. Seeing the person who called her “wife” talking to her, she looked at Xia Li with confused eyes.
“The glass, pick it up.” Xia Li whispered in Lucia’s ear.
Lucia didn’t understand human etiquette.
All she knew was that the humans who drank water here seemed to like to drink all the water in their glasses in one gulp… It must be some kind of tradition, right?
Her face, still stained with black pepper sauce, calmed down, and her amber eyes stared at the half glass of juice she had left for a while.
After hesitating for a moment, Lucia picked up her glass with her hands covered in food grease and gulped down the water.
She drank it all in one gulp, then put the empty glass on the table and wiped the remaining water droplets from her mouth with the back of her hand.
“Finished!” Lucia said loudly.
“Hahaha…” Fu Yuan burst into laughter at the sight.
Xia Li sighed helplessly and clinked his beer glass with Fu Yuan, whose arm had been hanging in the air for a long time.
“She doesn’t understand these things.”
“It’s okay, hahaha…” Fu Yuan laughed so hard his shoulders shook and his glasses kept slipping down. He found it very amusing.